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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
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Subject: Re: [IDEA+RFC] Possible solution for min()/max() war
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 19:26:19 +0200
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On August 30, 2001 07:03 pm, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> "Daniel Phillips wrote:"
> > More than anything, it shows that education is needed, not macro 
patch-ups.
> > We have exactly the same issues with < and >, should we introduce 
> > three-argument macros to replace them?
> 
> # define le(t,a,b) ({ t _a = a; t _b = b;  min(t,_a,_b) == _a ; })
> # define ge(t,a,b) ({ t _a = a; t _b = b;  min(t,_a,_b) == _b ; })

Oh, you are one sick puppy.

For completeness:

# define lt(t,a,b) ({ t _a = a; t _b = b;  min(t,_a,_b) != _b ; })
# define gt(t,a,b) ({ t _a = a; t _b = b;  min(t,_a,_b) != _a ; })

--
Daniel